Kurt Raab
Popularity:1.455
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1941-07-20
Place of Birth:Bergreichenstein, Sudetenland [now Kasperské Hory, Czech Republic]
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Feel the Motion (1985)
Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her luck in the music show 'Formel Eins'. There she...
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
The Magic Mountain (1982)
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin...
Bolero (1985)
Pete is no stranger to success, delivering hit series as a musician in a rock group. When he parts ways with his band and produces his first solo LP,...
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los (1984)
Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to...
Satan’s Brew (1976)
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his...
Cheaters (1984)
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the...
Fear of Fear (1975)
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...
Boarding School (1978)
This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...
Ticket of No Return (1979)
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
The Stationmaster’s Wife (1977)
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious...
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...
The Ghost (1982)
Jesus (played by the director) returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun,...
The Island of the Bloody Plantation (1983)
A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal...
The American Soldier (1970)
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
Slow Attack (1980)
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her...
Bremen Freedom (1972)
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery...
The Coffee House (1970)
Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.
Out of Order (1984)
It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the...
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 (1971)
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night...
Angry Harvest (1985)
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's...
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...
The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...
The Brutalization of Franz Blum (1974)
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police....
Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen (1980)
A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world wants to get hold of the product.
Jail Bait (1973)
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young...
Mathias Kneißl (1971)
Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole...
The Atlantic Swimmers (1976)
Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.
Adolf and Marlene (1977)
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her...
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
Love Is Colder Than Death (1970)
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.
Yearning for Sodom (1989)
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with...
Frankfurt: The Face of a City (1981)
Bored with her stuffy village life, teenager Susanne decides to run away to the bright lights Frankfurt, while her boyfriend does his military....
Whity (1971)
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...
Liebeskonzil (1982)
Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza...
Nur ein kleines bißchen Liebe (1977)
An early short by Wolfgang Büld, in which he wanted to depict the pleasant, mundane songs and movies of the 50s. The film was supposed to be...
Angels of Iron (1981)
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the...
Today We're Playing Boss (1981)
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
Dr. Margarete Johnson (1982)
The divorced and emancipated Margarete Johnson falls in love with her young and extremely medical bandaged nephew.
Like a Bird on a Wire (1975)
A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and...
Martha (1974)
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous...
Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (1989)
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
Parker (1985)
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
Bella Donna (1983)
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose...
Wohin? (1988)
Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman is discovered to be the mastermind behind a...
Das Totenreich (1986)
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to...
Der Zappler (1983)
Stefan is 12 years old, spastically paralyzed and has moved to a new town with his mother. His illness is met with hostility and rejection by the...
Wie die Weltmeister (1981)
A man moves to Berlin after relationship trouble.
Bel Canto, or May a Hooker Sob? (1977)
A film by Robert van Ackeren.
Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)
Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.
Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars (1986)
Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that has so far failed to materialize.
My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through...
Rio das Mortes (1971)
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...
Humus (1984)
A German short starring Kurt Raab.
Fire and Sword (1982)
The young knight Tristan is injured in a fight in Ireland and cared for by the beautiful Isolde. He falls in love with her, unaware that she is the...
Mussolini and I (1985)
A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the...
End of the Commune? (1970)
"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater...
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1979)
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1979)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972)
Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran,...
Kir Royal (1986)
Kir Royal – Aus dem Leben eines Klatschreporters is a six-part television series by Helmut Dietl from the year 1986. This is a parody of the...
Der ganz normale Wahnsinn (1979)
Der ganz normale Wahnsinn is a German television series.
Detektivbüro Roth (1986)
Detektivbüro Roth is a German television series.
Die schwarzen Brüder (1984)
Die schwarzen Brüder is the best-known story of German writer Lisa Tetzner and one of the most widely read children's books in the world.
Confessions of Felix Krull (1982)
Based on unfinished 1954 novel by the German author Thomas Mann. It is a parody of Goethe's autobiography Poetry and Truth, particularly in its...
Derrick (1974)
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about...
World on a Wire (1973)
Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.
World on a Wire (1970)
Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.
World on a Wire (1970)
Kir Royal – Aus dem Leben eines Klatschreporters is a six-part television series by Helmut Dietl from the year 1986. This is a parody of the...